🔬✨ Scientific Talk at the Cyprus Planetarium ✨🔬

Mapping the Invisible: Tracing the Cosmic Web and the Mystery of Dark Energy

Our Universe is not just expanding—it’s accelerating. In this talk, we’ll journey from the Big Bang to the vast cosmic web of galaxies that fills the Universe today. Using cutting-edge sky surveys and powerful computer simulations, astronomers are mapping the largest structures ever discovered and uncovering clues about one of the greatest mysteries in physics: dark energy. What is driving the Universe apart—and what does it mean for its ultimate fate?

Sara Maleubre Molinero is a postdoctoral Beecroft Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she studies the evolution of “mini-universes” using large cosmological simulations on very big supercomputers. She grew up in Madrid, Spain, where she completed most of her undergraduate studies, including Erasmus exchanges in France and the UK. She then moved to the Netherlands to pursue a Master’s degree in Astronomy and Cosmology at Leiden University. Sara obtained her PhD in Cosmology from Sorbonne University in Paris, followed by a year at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Munich, Germany, prior to her moving to her current position at Oxford.

She enjoys engaging with younger audiences, whether through her teaching at the university or participating in outreach events, and loves inspiring others to explore the Universe—both the real one and the simulated ones she creates.